Description: Varied observations from a nurse / IT professional / educator / patriot
Cryptic headline, eh? Maybe it grabbed your attention. True, it doesn’t reveal much about what’s on my mind lately… Glad you asked….
While I am not about to divulge details or to impugn anyone’s motives or intent, let’s just say that this fall, one of the “hats” I wore previously is perched on the hat rack, duration not yet clear. That would be as an adjunct instructor in health informatics. Note that this refers just to the part-time application of that calling in the academic setting. As a professional informatics and analytics evangelist, I do lots of informal teaching and coaching in my full-time job. I am also engaged in bringing al
So, while I take some time off from the academic discipline of health informatics, I get to reflect on the nature of that body of knowledge. Specifically, I wonder if the program to which I have lately contributed is as much a health informatics (HI) one, strictly defined, as a health information management (HIM) one. Oddly enough, for such an arcane question, it seems others have asked a similar one. Do an online search for “difference between informatics and HIM” and you’ll see; it will save me posting m